I am on my way home from my first North East VMUG ( @NorthEastVMUG ). It is not my first VMUG. Work allowing, I have been a regular attendee to the London VMUG ( @LonVMUG ) for the last few years. This time would be different though. This time I was presenting a session for the first time. What is VMUG? The VMware User Group (VMUG) is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created to maximize members’ use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events.
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 22, 2017.
Today I sat the VMware Certified Professional 7 - Cloud Management and Automation exam and I’m glad to say I passed! About the VCP7-CMA exam The VCP7-CMA Exam is 85 questions in 110 minutes with a passing score of 300 / 500. For more information seee the exam page. My take on the exam In my view, the exam was a fair reflection of the content on the Exam Blueprint and a vast improvement on the VCP6-Cloud exam I took 18 months ago.
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 1, 2017.
More important in the UK than the upcoming General Election, It is that time of year again when you can vote for your #TopvBlog2017 (created by Eric Siebert at vsphere-land.com and sponsored by turbonomic ). A VOTE for me is… a vote for ME! I made it onto the short list (albeit you do have to nominate your blog yourself!)As well as the general category, I threw my name in the hat for the following categories:
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 1, 2017.
VMware vRealize Automation 7.x introduced a #awesome Installation Wizard. This was a #QuantumLeap forward from the vRA6 installation mechanism that can be best described as laborious. The Installation/Configuration Wizard guides you through all of the stages of the installation and can even install all of the IaaS prerequisites for you. In my experience from vRA6, getting the prerequisites correct, was the place where most pain was caused. This was the reason @vBrianGraf created some powershell scripts to handle it.
Written by Christopher Lewis on June 1, 2017.
Intro I was drafted into a customer today to try and work out why, amongst other small niggles, their Windows Virtual Machines had suddenly started to hang during provisioning. The deployments were from a relatively standard IaaS Blueprint that was created 6 months ago. I thought I would share my thought process/steps (right or wrong) to solving the issue and also tell you what happened. I’m not really a “check the logs” kind of guy (unless its uber complicated).
Written by Christopher Lewis on May 26, 2017.
VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.3 is out! ( Release Notes ) and the deployment and configuration process is now a lot slicker and easier to complete. In this HOWTO, we look at the the process of configuring Role Based Access Management within the Control Center. There are three Pre-Defined Roles are: Administrator - Has access to All configuration menus. Tenant Admin - Has access to only to Role Based Access Management and Inspect Workflows.
Written by Christopher Lewis on May 24, 2017.
VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.3 is out! ( Release Notes ) and the deployment process is now a lot slicker and easier to complete. In this HOWTO, we look at the process that can be followed for the configuration of a single standalone Orchestrator Appliance. Prerequisites Successful deployment of the VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.3 Appliance. (optional) A DNS CNAME record for vro.fqdn to replace vro.app.fqdn. Configuration Steps Using a web browser, navigate to https://vro.
Written by Christopher Lewis on May 23, 2017.
So it seems VMware are actually listening to the feedback and this just happened… vRealize Orchestrator - with the following new features: RBAC in the Control Center - Yes! vRealize Automation - with the following new features: Integration with Puppet - Yes! Automatic failover for the IaaS Manager Service - Yes! Enhanced logging - Yes! NSX improvements - Yes! It’s good that a release make someone a #HappyBunny rather than a #SadPanda!
Written by Christopher Lewis on May 17, 2017.
A very quick post on the latest version of VMware’s PowerCLI, v6.5.1. See VMware’s Official Blog here . This is now a MODULE available from the PowerShell Gallery which is #Awesome because it has been a major annoyance not being able just to type Install-Module PowerCLI to install it. Instead you had to go through a standard windows install package in the past. At a Glance Remove existing PowerCLI installation.
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 24, 2017.
Prerequisites A VMCA SSL Certificate (such as root_signing_cert.cer) A RSA Private Key (such as root_signing_cert.key) Process Overview The high level steps are as followed: Log into the External Platform Services Controller. Replace the Root Certificate. Connect to the PSC Appliance. Renew the Machine SSL Certificate. Renew the Solution User Certificate. Connect to the VCSA Appliance. Renew the Machine SSL Certificate. Renew the Solution User Certificate. Reboot the Platform Services Controller. Process Breakdown Log into External Platform Services Controller Navigate to https://psc-appliance.
Written by Christopher Lewis on March 25, 2017.
Platform Services Controller vCenter VCSA VMCA VMware vSphere
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